The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Album: Ives - The Symphonies
... Malone performed as a freelance musician in the New York City area, from Broadway pit orchestras to subbing for major symphonies ... The first program of the new year is titled “Americana,” featuring Charles Ives’ Piano Trio and the premiere of UVM ... Ives (1874-1954) was an insurance executive from Danbury who composed 129 songs and several symphonies, played the organ and attended Yale. He is often called the father of modern American music. Voice Connecticut Opera is trying something different ... ... has had works commissioned by the San Francisco and Oakland East Bay symphonies, is no stranger to traditional orchestras. His ... this week -- Michael Tilson Thomas is on the podium for tonight's San Francisco Symphony concert, featuring Charles Ives ... When asked what his buddies think of having a friend who has written five symphonies, more than 12 piano sonatas, three piano ... Ives. You can look at my iPod, there's a lot of stuff in there." How much time does it take to write full-length works for ... ... conduct programs that combined their own music with something from older repertoire, chiefly by Beethoven, whose nine symphonies ... The Wound-Dresser, based on Walt Whitman's chilling and tenderhearted Civil War poetry; and My Father Knew Charles Ives ... ... Aranjuez," (March), Handel's complete "Messiah" (December) with guest conductor Christoph Campestrini and three great symphonies ... Their Carmel program is called "The Light" and includes American composer Charles Ives' "String Quartet No. 1," "A Revival ... The Dutch call Vermeulen (1888-1967) "the Charles Ives of Holland," and also their Varèse. He is the archetypal ... Symphonies: No. 1, "Symphonia carminum" (1912-14) No. 2, "Prelude à la nouvelle journée" (1919-20) No. 3, "Thrène et Péan ... In America, Charles Ives was an insurance executive, yet managed to write four fine symphonies. In Queensland, the poet Jack Blight ran a sawmill and, when I first met Judith Wright, she was statistics officer at the University of Queensland. While ...
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